Plastic Surgeon Seminar New Jersey

The India Project

The Chester Lioness Club will meet on Thursday, November 1st at 6:30 PM in the Lamplighter Restaurant, Routes #24/513, Chester, NJ.  The club is honored to present Dr. Larry Weinstein, a local plastic surgeon with offices in both Chester Woods and Summit, NJ, who has traveled on two missions of mercy with the renound Dr. Sharadkumer Dicksheet, a Brooklyn plastic surgeon and five- time Nobel prize nominee for his surgical interventions of the poor in his native country of India.  Upon their return to the U.S. in February, from a five day mission in Calcutta, Dr Weinstein had completed 52 cleft lip surgeries and saw an average of 105 patients daily. A clef lip is a separation of the upper lip and pallet at the base of the nose.   In the United States, this surgery is generally performed within the first year of life.  In poorer regions of India, many people live with defects for years, even into adulthood.

Dr Weinstein will give a synopsis of “The India Project and Reconstructive Facial Surgery”.  Dr Weinstein feels blessed to be able to help patients in India.  When he learned how many surgeries he had performed, he said that it was one “mitzvah”, or good deed, for every week of the year.  He finds much joy in working with his friend, the 75 year old Dr. Dicksheet, who despite injuries from a car accident which left him wheelchair bound, had a bout with laryngeal cancer and survived two heart attacks, continues to work helping others.  “He has sat at a table for as long as 10 hour for surgery”, Weinstein said, “To work with a man like that. He is really a testament to the human spirit.”

To learn more about Dr Weinstein and his practice, visit his website www.docweinstein.com.  It is an educational and enlightening experience!

Community members interested in attending this program, or learning more about the Chester Lioness Club may phone Holly Simmenroth, Lioness Program Chairperson at 908-879-5932